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Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. (9/29/2024)
A lazy day there overlooking this vista there in the Badlands. Seems to just go on forever there ... spectacular to see.
A bison bull (the largest land animal in North America) strides across the mixed-grass prairie with a pronghorn doe (the fastest land animal in North America) in the background. I was lucky to see this shot coming. We were watching this mature bull stride across the prairie and I could see that, if he continued on the same path, he would pass between us and the pronghorn. When he reached the right spot a single click was enough to get the shot. Badlands National Park, SD.
A few more Badlands wildlife images to come...
One of our very favorite places to visit, Badlands National Park in South Dakota. There are some great hiking trails and a 40 mile drive through the park that offers many scenic photo ops like this one. We've seen bighorn sheep, bison, wild turkey, prairie dogs, burrowing owls and coyotes in the park.
Liked this view there and the dynamic range from one side of the sky to the other where the transition from night to day can be seen ... captured there in the Badlands before sunrise.
Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. (9/29/2024)
Taken just as the sun popped over the horizon. This is looking West over the Conata Basin in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Who says the Badlands are bland and colorless...
An October trip to Badlands and Wind Cave National Parks, and Custer State Park has become an annual tradition. No crowds, cool weather, good wildlife viewing and pretty spectacular landscapes keep drawing us back. This year's trip starts on Monday. So today and tomorrow I'll post shots similar to what I hope to get this time.
Badlands Valley. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A small wash passes beneath badlands terrain in morning light, Death Valley National Park.
There is a lot going on in this photograph of the Death Valley National Park landscape. Early morning light is coming from behind and to the left of the camera position and striking the eroded landforms from the side. Although it is sometime after dawn, it is early enough that the light still has a warm, post-sunrise color. All of the complex structures in the scene are interconnected — they all drain toward the desert wash at the bottom of the frame.
More than almost any other landscape that I know, the appearance of the desert changes radically depending on the direction, quality, and color of the light. I have sequences of photographs made over a half-hour period in which the transition is striking. At first, before dawn, the light is soft and blue-toned. At first light it may become intensely colorful if the sunrise cooperates. A half hour later the color fades toward that familiar desert midday harshness.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
An isolated patch of green life clinging onto a teetering badland landscape, known as the Putangirua Pinnacles.
Had the opportunity to photograph these earth pillar formations last year, which are some of the finest examples of badlands erosion in NZ. It was a challenge trying to scope out a composition - one I have not seen from this complicated, but unique landscape.
Wellington Region, New Zealand
Burrowing owl with a mean look on its face. This was taken on round two of visiting the Badlands on the return trip home from Yellowstone.
The Badlands wildlife series continues with this mature bighorn ram. The Bighorn sheep in Badlands National Park are among the most tolerant of people of any wildlife I've seen anywhere. As you can see by the focal length this guy had no concern with my close proximity. In fact I didn't have to approach him...rather I just sat down and waited as he slowly but surely came closer to me. As he walked by I whispered "pssst" and he turned to give me this nice pose.
I hadn't done an HDR in at least a couple years. I thought I'd give it another go. Processed in Photomatix Pro and Lightroom.
Door Trail. Badlands National Park.
Here is a comp taken with the 17mm that gets us in a little closer to the mounds and rock structure there at this spot in the Badlands. The lighting was from the first night there when a thunderstorm passed by right as the sunset happened, resulting in some great lighting and colors there.
Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. (9/29/2024)
Taken in the early morning while hiking the Badlands, Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch Loop, starting at Zabriskie Point. Including the side trip to Red Cathedral, it is ~7.8 miles.
An early start (right after photographing sunrise at Zabriskie Point) made for beautiful light and uncrowded trails. Several times during my stay, I noticed the Golden Canyon trailhead parking lot was full to overflowing in mid-afternoon.
For those interested in doing this hike, it is described including a detailed map at www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/golden-canyon.htm.
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Continuing to look through older pictures and really learn from them. This one from Badlands National Park caught my eye. I like the pattern of the longer grasses and the moody sky. However, the original is really cluttered, a lot going on. Tall grass, short grass, hills, sky, there was a prickly pear cactus off to the left, a few rocks. I didn't like this photo until I simply cropped in on what I liked, the patterns of the grass and the sky. One of the things I love about photography is I'm always learning. I'm learning to keep it simple.
Badlands National Park, SD
The Badlands refers to a small field of rolling hills in Caledon, Ontario that is almost completely devoid of vegetation, covered in Queenston shale that becomes very slippery when wet and erodes easily. Ontario Heritage Trust owns the property and it is maintained by the Bruce Trail Conservancy.
Copied from the caledonbrucetrail.org.
Death Valley, California
Down in the badlands below Zabriskie Point, we round the corner for a view of the setting moon and clouds lit by the rising sun.
I was camped overnight on BLM land just outside Badlands NP, SD on Friday night. This was the sunrise on Saturday morning.
South Dakota
Others from this trip are in the Album www.flickr.com/photos/thadz/albums/72157660032324601
Liked these formations and the meadows leading to them there in the Badlands. Here the solid blue sky adds to the scene I think, allowing one to truly enjoy the patterns of nature being presented to us.
an old photo of the winding road through the badlands.
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